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The Top 9½ In a Hacker’s Bookshelf

Every hacker should have a good solid dead tree library to draw ideas from and use as reference material. This list has a bit of everything - textbooks you will encounter at top tier computer science universities, books giving insight into the industry, and references you shouldn’t be caught without. It is a list of hackers’ classics.

The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Anniversary Edition

by Fredrick P. Brooks

The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)

by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd Edition)

by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

Code Complete 2: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

by Steve McConnell

Introduction to Algorithms

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John M. Vlissides

Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)

by Jon Bentley

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman

Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, and Mike Loukides


The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

by Douglas Adams


That’s it for my top 9½. What would you put in yours?

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